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Norton Kelly
Dennis Jobin is one of John and Lorraine’s classmates who attends the raucous party they throw at Mr. Pignati’s house while Mr. Pignati is recovering at the hospital. He’s Norton Kelly’s friend, and the two of them are known as bullying troublemakers (though Norton is decidedly more dangerous and unhinged than Dennis). Like many of The Pigman’s teenage characters, Dennis grows up in a rather dysfunctional household—his father is a mean alcoholic.
Dennis Jobin Quotes in The Pigman
The The Pigman quotes below are all either spoken by Dennis Jobin or refer to Dennis Jobin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes
John told you about Dennis and Norton, but I don’t think he got across how really disturbed those two boys are. Norton has eyes like a mean mouse, and he’s the type of kid who thinks everyone’s trying to throw rusty beer cans at him. And he’s pretty big, even bigger than John, and the two of them hate each other.
Actually, Norton is a social outcast. He’s been a social outcast since his freshman year in high school when he got caught stealing a bag of marshmallows from the supermarket. He never recovered from that because they put his name in the newspaper and mentioned that the entire loot was a bag of marshmallows, and ever since then everybody calls him The Marshmallow Kid.
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There was something about his voice that made me feel sorry for him, and I began to wish I had never bothered him. He just went on talking and talking, and the receiver started to hurt my ear. By this time Dennis and Norton had gone into the living room and started to watch TV, but right where they could keep an eye on timing the phone call. John stayed next to me, pushing his ear close to the receiver every once in awhile, and I could see the wheels in his head spinning.
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Dennis Jobin Character Timeline in The Pigman
The timeline below shows where the character Dennis Jobin appears in The Pigman. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
Everything began when Lorraine, John, Dennis Jobin, and Norton Kelly were making prank phone calls last September. They began with simple...
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Chapter 4
...narrates this chapter. Lorraine catches readers up to speed on what John hasn’t said about Dennis and Norton—they’re “really disturbed.” Norton has mean eyes and is an outcast. He’s been that...
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...about his tone made Lorraine feel sorry for him—he sounded very lonely. By this point, Dennis and Norton had gotten bored and went to watch TV. But John stayed with Lorraine...
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Chapter 7
...the next day, but they don’t get there until seven o’clock, as they run into Dennis and Norton, who want to share a beer in the cemetery with them. They have...
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Back in the present, John and Lorraine finally manage to break away from Norton and Dennis, but now they can’t go straight to the Pigman’s, since Lorraine has to check in...
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Chapter 9
...Pignati. If John doesn’t give Norton more information about him, says Norton, then he and Dennis might pay the man a visit on their own. Unfazed, John gets up, sarcastically thanks...
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Chapter 13
...he really did think Mr. Pignati would want them to have fun with their friends. Dennis is the first guest to arrive that night, a bottle of his father’s whiskey in...
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